Contact: infodrmarlow@gmail.com
Call or text: 212-749-7110
Specialties:
Pain management
Sports medicine
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Professional Background:
Doctor Luke Marlow is a licensed Chiropractor in the states of NY and NJ with fifteen years of professional experience in private practice. He is a Certified Fascial Manipulation Specialist with a focus on sports medicine and pain management, and holds a certificate in Whole Foods Nutrition from NYCC.
Luke treats patients with Chiropractic adjustments and Fascial Manipulation primarily, but he also uses flexion distraction, sacra-occipital technique, kinesiology, nimmo trigger point therapy, active release, gua sha, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.
He employs nutritional counseling, rehabilitative therapeutic exercises, and lifestyle modification such as postural reeducation and ergonomic considerations to increase range of motion and functionality in activities of daily living.
In addition to spinal care Luke treats an extensive amount of hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, TMJ, foot, ankle, knee, hip, and pelvic complaints. He treats headaches, pinched nerves, sciatic pain, numbness, tingling, radiculopathy, whiplash, carpal tunnel, sprains, strains, tendinitis, repetitive stress injuries, plantar fasciitis, rotator cuff impingement, and sports injuries.
His college basketball playing experience and high school basketball coaching experience have stirred a deep passion for sports medicine and optimization of athletic performance across the spectrum. His personal dedication to diet and fitness as well as his studies in nutrition have always inspired an adept interest in helping to manage complex visceral complaints such as glandular, immune, reproductive, and digestive disorders. Now with FM for internal dysfunction he has a physical tool to use in addition to diet and lifestyle modification approaches for certain types of internal (organic) symptoms.
Educational Background:
Luke embarked on his journey into higher education in 2002 at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, where he concentrated on Exercise Science with a double major in French. He was a four year varsity collegiate athlete in men’s basketball, and graduated summa cum laude with national honors in exercise science and modern languages.
He then spent a year teaching english abroad in France, before starting his graduate studies in 2007. He went on to receive his doctorate degree from New York Chiropractic College (NYCC) in 2010, upon successful completion of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners part I, II, III, IV, and physiotherapy. He attained licensure in Applied Kinesiology during his graduate studies by completing the 100 hour course of extracurricular weekend seminars. In addition to his endeavors in manual therapy, Luke has a passion for nutrition and dietary supplementation which spurred his pursuit of a certificate in Whole Food Nutrition from NYCC. He graduated as a member of the Phi Chi Omega Chiropractic Honor Society, and did his clinical residency on Long Island at the Levittown Health Center, during which time he did additional rotations in free clinics at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Farmingdale, and the Salvation Army.
Early in his career Luke was introduced to a game changer in the sports medicine field: Fascial Manipulation (FM)- a comprehensive manual soft tissue therapy technique to evaluate and treat myofascial dysfunction. Luke was immediately drawn to the precision, rationale, and efficacy of it. FM was developed by Dr Luigi Stecco in Italy 40 years ago, and has been evolved and improved upon ever since. There is no other soft tissue method with as much peer reviewed literature as FM. Dr Stecco has mapped out sequences of critical points in the deep fascia through cadaver dissection, which he calls centers of coordination (CCs) and centers of fusion (CFs). These points are found to mirror acupuncture meridians; when adhesions or densifications build up in CCs or CFs, this directly affects and negatively alters joint biomechanics, alignment, posture, and range of motion resulting in dysfunctions such as pain syndromes, restriction, and sometimes deformity.
Manipulation of CCs and CFs with deep pressure and friction is carried out manually by the practitioner using elbows, knuckles, and finger pads. Proper glide must be re-established between fascial layers and different adjacent tissues such as muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and skin. As mentioned above, this technique can also be used to balance and maintain proper tensional equilibrium between the CCs and CFs to treat internal organ dysfunction, thereby reestablishing homeostasis in the body.
